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Thursday, September 3, 2015

“Without Real Political Road Map, Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Will Lead Nowhere…”
from Karen News PLUS 3 days ago / Creative Commons License: by nc nd ALL AUDIENCES
David Tharckabaw, head of the Karen National Unions Alliance Affairs, in an exclusive interview with Karen News, explains why he is opposed to the current Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement that he believes benefits only a few people.
I am not opposed to a National Ceasefire Agreement that will lead to real peace. But I am against this National Ceasefire Agreement, because it is not going to lead to real peace.
There is no equality [shown] to the ethnic leaders. There is no clear political road map. And there is no inclusiveness.
BY Karen News

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KACHIN

Kachin, tribal peoples occupying parts of northeastern Myanmar (Burma) and contiguous areas ofIndia (Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland) and China (Yunnan). The greatest number of Kachin live in Myanmar (roughly 790,000), but some 150,000 live in China and a few thousand in India. Numbering about 1012,000 in the late 20th century, they speak a variety of languages of the Tibeto-Burman group and are thereby distinguished as Jinghpaw, or Jingpo (Chingpaw [Ching-p’o], Singhpo), Atsi, Maru (Longvo), Lachid, Nung (Rawang), and Lisu .

The traditional Kachin religion is a form of animistic ancestor cult entailing animalsacrifice. As a result of the arrival of American and European missionaries in Burma beginning in the late 19th century, a majority of the Kachin are Christian, mainly Baptist and Roman Catholic. Among the Kachin in India, Buddhism predominates.